12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #1 to love Prince Harry more:

Rocking that traditional blanket with unexpected confidence for a man more comfortable in chinos and a button-up. READ MORE: 10 times Prince Harry was adorable with kids

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #2 to love Prince Harry more:

This hug with Mutso, an old friend from his first visit to Lesotho, is, ugh, too sweet. READ MORE: Prince Harry hugs an elephant

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #3 to love Prince Harry more:

Teaching a young boy to play rugby = all the awwwws. READ MORE: Prince Harry opens up about losing his mom

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #4 to love Prince Harry more:

Just casually taking a Tracker dog on mission in the bushveld. READ MORE: Prince Harry being adorable with animals

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #5 to love Prince Harry more:

Technically from his earlier trip this year, this is Harry playing a vital part (like, he was doing surgery here people) in rhino conservation efforts. READ MORE: Prince George's all time best looks

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #6 to love Prince Harry more:

"Hanging ten" with a group of children learning to surf as a way of getting them away from life on the street. (We can talk about those sunnies later, H). READ MORE: Prince George's wonderful, magical very good day at the museum

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #7 to love Prince Harry more:

Putting those arm muscles to good use at the Football for Hope centre in Cape Town. READ MORE: Prince George's all time best frowns

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #8 to love Prince Harry more:

There's something Kylie Jenner-esque about this selfie Haz took for World Aids Day, and we don't hate it. READ MORE: The cutest royal kids

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #9 to love Prince Harry more:

Trying so hard, and failing so awesomely, at being stern while playing football in Cape Town. READ MORE: Prince George's no good, very horrible day at the polo

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #10 to love Prince Harry more:

Having a gab with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on whom he bestowed an honour on behalf of the Queen. READ MORE: 18 dresses Kate Middleton should wear to her first state banquet

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12 reasons to love Prince Harry even more after his trip to Africa

Reason #11 to love Prince Harry more:

This picture is life. READ MORE: 20 of Kate Middleton's best maternity fashion moments

This Walking Dead star is going to be a dad

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This Walking Dead star is going to be a dad

Steven Yeun, who plays Glenn on The Walking Dead, is having a much better 2016 than his character.

The actor married his longtime love, Joana Pak, in Los Angeles last weekend and, according to E! News, the couple is expecting their first child together. There's been no confirmation from the pair yet, but in the meantime, here's an adorable photo Yeun posted of his wife on Instagram on their wedding day.

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EXCLUSIVE: Rooney Mara on her new movie Lion

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EXCLUSIVE: Rooney Mara on her new movie Lion

In 2015, Rooney Mara was turning 30, and she had a plan: She was moving house, and then she was going to take a break from making movies and spend her birthday in India, a country she has always wanted to visit. What she (“adamantly!”) was not going to do was work, which is why she really only read the script for Lion, out now, as a favour. “It was so beautiful, and such an incredible story, and I was like, ‘I’m still not doing it, but at least I’ll speak to Garth [Davis, the director],’” she explains. “After five minutes with him, I was like, ‘I’m definitely doing this.’ I’m so happy I did.”

The story that grabbed Mara is this: Lion is based on the true tale of a boy named Saroo, who wanders from his home village in India, loses touch with his family, is adopted by an Australian couple and eventually, as an adult, tracks down his birth mother using Google Maps. The role Mara fell for (and about which she made a joke that it was “an actual supporting role,” in reference to the controversy about her Oscar nomination last year, when her main-character role in Carol made the Best Supporting Actress short list) is that of Lucy, the girlfriend of the adult Saroo (played by “When did he get so hot?” Dev Patel).

Eighteen months after Mara’s decision to abandon her big birthday sabbatical, we’re with the American actress in a Toronto hotel room. It’s a few days after the film’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). While Mara seemed aloof and a little uncomfortable walking the red carpet, today she’s confident and clever (and devastatingly cool, with her hair slicked back in a bun). The only indication this whole movie-star lark might not be entirely her thing is her nervous fidgeting with a silver ring, which she puts on and takes off on a loop during our chat. (Later, she confesses to a discomfort with red carpets in particular: “The first year at TIFF no one knew who I was, so no one was looking at me on the red carpet. I still feel uncomfortable but in a much different way. Now, the fear is more ‘real’—people are actually looking at me and judging me so it’s a rational fear.”)

Mara is a thoughtful and considered question answerer. When asked whether she believes that fate guides her life, she thinks for a moment. “It’s weird because I have two distinct sides: One is very logical and grounded, and the other is very much in fairyland,” she says. “I believe in destiny, in a way, but I also believe in free will and that we are the masters of our own fate. But I believe there is some pull that the universe has in where we are supposed to be and what we are supposed to be doing.”And then she laughs: “I don’t want to sound kooky, though! I am an intuitive person, and that’s how I make my decisions. Every time I don’t follow that feeling, it leads me to the wrong thing or something that doesn’t turn out good.”

And maybe it’s that experience that leads Mara to give a pre-emptive “No!” when the idea of ever being in a romcom comes up, or being in a movie about football, given her family’s involvement in the sport. (The Maras are part owners of the New York Giants.) “I love sports movies; I love an underdog story,” she says. “But I would stay away from being in one because [being interviewed] would be very painful for me because that’s all people would want to know about.”

In Lion, Lucy knows Saroo when he is living in Australia—which means, ironically, that Mara was one of the few actors working on the film who didn’t get to shoot in India. “I still haven’t been there!” she says. “But I’m going to go next year during my time off.” Unless the universe has other plans—right, Rooney?

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Saint West celebrated his first birthday and there are a lot of pictures on the Internet

The youngest member of the Kimye family turned one yesterday, and while the joyous occasion didn’t propel Kim Karadashian back onto social media, her family and friends stepped in to mark the occasion on the Internet with lots of photos.

Cue the awwwwws.

Kim’s BFF Jonathan Cheban took to Kim's website to share two “never-before-seen” photos of her with Saint.

Aunt Khloé had this to share on her website: "I can't believe how quickly time flies! Watching my little Saint grow this past year has been amazing. He's seriously such an angel and could not be more adorable. What a light he's been for our family!"

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Gigi Hadid is going on a social media cleanse

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Gigi Hadid is going on a social media cleanse

Gigi Hadid and Instagram are about to go on a break. The model recently revealed she'd be taking some time off from the social-media site after the holidays.

"I'm taking a month off, actually, during New Years. I'm not deleting my account, I'm just taking the apps off my phone," she told ELLE US of her social-media hiatus. "It's empowering, not just for people in the spotlight, for everyone. At the end of the day I'm choosing what I'm showing you. A lot of the world feels so entitled to other peoples' lives, which is so crazy. I'm going to take a break when I feel like it, and when I come back and share it with you, if you want to be supportive and still follow me, that's great. But, if you're going to be upset that I need to be human for a month, than maybe I don't want your follow anyway."

While we'll miss her killer feed – which includes her slaying the Victoria's Secret runway, arm in arm with beau Zayn Malik (see below), and #ootds in some of the coolest athleisure we've ever seen, we get it.

Gigi is not the only star to take a break from the 'gram this year. Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Selena Gomez also chose to detox from the app. "It has gotten to the point that people won't even say hi to me or recognize me as a human," Bieber wrote on Instagram before deleting his account, "I feel like a zoo animal, and I wanna be able to keep my sanity."